B2B Marketing Traction

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I’m very active and have led several Los Angeles association chapters and I’ve served on some national boards and committees. I’m relatively active on LinkedIn. In 2008 he launched the Social Network Roadmap and the Executive’s Guide to Web 2.0 to foster aggressive adoption of Web 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 18, 2011

Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. United States License. Theme: Contempt by Vault9.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 24, 2010

Identify what activities your prospects engage in with their mobile devices. That Is A Lot Of Time Spent Online Using Social Media Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Summit Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011? Need to Drive Leads?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. Thanks for emphasizing the point! Doug Jul 7 2010 Forget about cost per lead, what is the cost per close?

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I also need to mention that I cannot take credit for my funnel depiction as there was much discussion by the leaders in our organization about the shape of our funnel and the need to increase the velocity of our demand activities by moving from a wine-glass shaped funnel to one shaped more like a champagne flute or a shot glass.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 17, 2010 Subscribe What Is Marketing Acceleration?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

If you use your CRM system to track marketing activities from inquiry to close, then you know how many opportunities you have created and how much sales pipeline that has generated. Create a “train schedule&# of activities that starts early in the year and ends late.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I realize my first blog posts are a bit self-indulgent but since I am only talking to myself and a few friends, I hope you will allow me these few introspections until I grow my followers and hopefully start to dispense pearls of wisdom that become widely shared across the web. Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? Why Do You Tweet?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I realize my first blog posts are a bit self-indulgent but since I am only talking to myself and a few friends, I hope you will allow me these few introspections until I grow my followers and hopefully start to dispense pearls of wisdom that become widely shared across the web. Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy? Why Do You Tweet?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 9, 2010 9 Subscribe Finding The Time To Tweet or Blog?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results.

Marketing Automation Services 60

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Social media is hot mainly because it is new news to lots of folks in marketing and across our organizations that “the customer is indeed in charge”. This is a foundational activity.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Time Line Close The Time Line close is effective when a product or service will impact a prospect’s project plan, especially if the purchasing decision is a prerequisite to other activities in the project plan. Author: Robert Krekstein is a results-driven executive with 18 years of experience in both marketing and selling.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

This agrees with what I am hearing from my engineering and industrial clients, they are seeing a lot more activity but the average sales cycle has grown by an additional 90 ~ 120 days. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

Marketing Strategy 100

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 10, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 10, 2010 15 Subscribe Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

Related Posts: The New Marketing Accountability Lead Generation Programs That Work B2B Marketing Predictions For 2011 11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail How To Align Marketing With Sales About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

Work Management 100

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year.

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

The details page should show all available sizes, options and other selection criteria with active links to downloadable PDFs of datasheets. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

Web 2.0 60

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

Download 7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up About the author: Robert Krekstein is a results-driven executive with 18 years of experience in both marketing and selling. He has demonstrated success in the creation and active management of aggressive marketing and sales plans. All rights reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: 5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial Buyers Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. You have to actively promote your optimized site using social media, press (news) releases, blogs and offline tactics to tell your target audience about your site.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy October 14, 2010 16 Subscribe Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard?!

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Related Posts: 7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up 11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail 5 Sales Closing Techniques What Is Marketing Acceleration? Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty.

Sales Management 100

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 1-2, Open Video Conference New York, NY: This multi-day summit full of thought leaders in business, academia, art and activism will explore the future of video on the web.

Paid Content 40

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Digital Asset Management 40

B2B Marketing Traction

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Learn new tactics and new technologies that will get you where you want to go faster and more cost-effectively, including social networking, search engine optimization, and inbound marketing. Eliminate marketing tactics that don’t produce results. When tigers are hunting, if they don’t succeed, they starve.

Planning 100

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B2B Marketing Traction

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Learn new tactics and new technologies that will get you where you want to go faster and more cost-effectively, including social networking, search engine optimization, and inbound marketing. Eliminate marketing tactics that don’t produce results. When tigers are hunting, if they don’t succeed, they starve.

Planning 100

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Hubspot

APRIL 17, 2014

Each blog is scored on four components: Social Reach : The combined social shares on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook of the ten most recent posts, as well as the blog''s main domain. Activity : The frequency at which the blog posts articles. Authority : Measured by the number of inbound links to the blog.

Education 28

Education Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 Case Studies 28

B2B Marketing Traction

APRIL 14, 2011

LinkedIn has bubbled up as the “winner” of business social networks. When my activity on LinkedIn reached what I would call a critical mass, I began getting a lot more profile views, invitations to connect and inquiries. With traditional marketing, there’s not a lot you can do with just three weeks before a show. Three weeks?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 29, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy July 29, 2010 8 Subscribe Why Do You Tweet? What is your social persona?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 12, 2014

To learn more about digital ad fraud and how it affects marketers and agencies, we spoke to a leading digital strategy and social media marketing expert Dr. Augustine Fou , who earned his PhD from MIT and founded Marketing Science Consulting Group in New York City over 14 years ago. But with the advent of Web 2.0

Paid Search Agency 28

Paid Search Agency Click Fraud Ads Budget Programs 28

Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 25, 2010

Operational efficiency is important, but it is not the greatest challenge B2B marketers are facing today. B2B marketers’ greatest challenge lies in responding to a rapidly-changing B2B buyer. 2) The shift to inbound marketing is a threat to the traditional marketing automation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 40

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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